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Easy Outlaw Skate Shop touts family fun aspects of skateboarding

FUN SHOP OPENING IN GOLDENDALE: The Easy Outlaw Skate Shop opens in Goldendale on June 29. The business sells skate boards and accessories and includes a half pipe and game room.

You see the logos everywhere you go, emblems representing the numerous brands produced to accommodate skaters in different fashions. While some think that skateboarding is just for teens who are, in some words, hooligans, it is actually one of the most popular sports in the United States and in various parts of the world. Skateboarding is an industry that is bringing in millions of dollars every year and there are several shops and skate parks that have been popping up all over the gorge.

Thanks to Brian and Jim Taylor, Goldendale will make its own ripple in the wave of this trend with the Easy Outlaw Skate Shop. "We've lived in Goldendale in the same house since Brian was born (23 years...